Updated: Your Highres Access Accounts Are Being Traded
Updated: Please see the comments for contributions that show more accounts being traded. Thanks for the input and keep it coming.
If you’re an image seller that gives special access to partners and accounts that allows them to download highres images you may want to check for abnormal activity on those accounts. One of our attentive readers points out that a site as been trading logins and passwords on leading imagesites. They apparently used the logins that are made available to subscription clients and partners. Anyone with access to these details would have been able to download high resolution images illegally. Trading logins is not a new phenomenon, especially among fans of celebrity pictures. This one is now down but may show up somewhere else soon.
The site (http://hqstarlight.livejournal.com/profile) Â is down but the Google description said:
hqstarlight – Selling / Trading Image Accounts. hqstarlight – Selling / Trading Image Accounts. Created on 2010-06-16 11:18:01 (#28327909), last updated …
If you have anymore information about this please email info@fastmediamagazine.com or comment. We’ll update this post if we get more info in.
Whatever the outcome this seems like a good time to recheck downloadreports.
There are more tradings going on:
check this one: http://community.livejournal.com/100x100tv/2177161.html
or this one:
http://seraphicdesign.livejournal.com/
I guess one of the agencies was able to close that account. Maybe these ones also?
Regards,
Louis Zaal
Hollandse Hoogte
Hi Marco,
How about this one: trading accounts which are active on November 14th, 2010:
http://www.drakecentral.org/sitewww/imageaccounts.php
And the second one Louis is mentioning is also known with us.
Best,
Gemma Schierbeek
Reporters BV
Hi Marco,
I’ve read your article on this topic with interest.
It’s the payment model where the challenge is..
If payment is due based on what has been published, rather then what has been downloaded, it doesn’t matter what kind of account accesses the database of the seller.
Corrigon facilitates this new pricing model by providing Image Recognition services to image banks. By monitoring the sites of customers, or even searching for new websites with matching images, invoicing can be accurately based on the actual publications. This saves a lot of time and potential human errors at the Image Bank, while customers will relax at the thought that they only pay as they publish.
Splash News is an exciting example of a customer which successfully changed from a passive pricing model to pro-active monitoring and invoicing based on actual publications.
I’d be more than happy to share more details on this opportunity for the industry with you. Please feel free to contact me.
Best regards,
Einav Itamar
CEO – Corrigon